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Digesting the word

I have often been listening to someone speak, or preach or just had a conversation and thought “hang on, there’s something not quite right here”. The person has said something, maybe benign enough, but it has disturbed my spirit. It’s as though the Holy Spirit in me says “don’t make agreement with or ingest that bit”. It’s not necessarily that the whole conversation or speech is bad, or even that the bit I need to reject is no good, it’s just that I don’t need to encumber my “digestive system” with it right now.

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Milk and meat

What is the difference between the milk and the meat of the word of God?

I have often heard that the milk is the easy stuff and the meat is the really complex theological stuff, but this never made sense to me in so far as we are told that even a child can enter the kingdom. So does that in effect mean that a child cannot enter the depth of the kingdom until he has intellectual acumen?
If we take the natural elements of milk and meat and how they are obtained and administered the picture is clear:

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